房县出土东汉车马出行画像砖之浅析

Analysis on Brick Relief with Traveling Carriage and Rider dating to Eastern Han Dynasty

2010年,湖北省十堰市房县二郎岗2号东汉墓中出土一批画像砖。砖的侧面均模印有车马画像图,一砖一画,画面主要由一立树、一导骑、一飞鸟、一轺车、一文吏等五部分组成。根据墓中出土的珥铛以及画像中的形象特征判断,墓中主人是一名女性,砖上车马出行图叙述的是一幅死者亲属为女性死者送行的送葬图,而且图上反映了东汉时期的"举孝廉"制度,以及死者亲属而非死者本人的官阶地位与经济实力。

A number of bricks excavated in a brick-chambered tomb numbered M2 dating to the Eastern Han Dynasty, from Erlanggang graveyard in Fangxian County, Hubei Province. Each brick shows a picture of traveling carriage and rider, including one standing tree, one rider on a horse, one flying bird, one carriage, and one official with a board. According to a glazed blue eardrop excavated, the dead is a female. And on the basis of the eardrop and the character of the figures on the brick, the picture is showing a funeral scene, and it reflects the official rank and economic degree of the relatives, not the dead.